It's the same picture that the Telegraph article had - but - it is an
illustrator's conception of what a blue rose would look like.
They still have to actually produce the thing.
>>The discovery was made by chance by two biochemists conducting research into
drugs for cancer and Alzheimer's in a medical laboratory at Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Professor Peter Guengerich and Dr Elizabeth Gillam were trying to find out how
the human liver breaks down drugs when they came across a liver enzyme that had
a startling effect.
"When we moved a liver enzyme into a bacterium, the bacterium turned blue," Dr
Guengerich said. "We were aware that there were people in the world who had
been interested in making coloured flowers, especially a blue rose, for a
number of years.
"Dr Gillam had the bright idea that we could capitalise on our discovery by
moving the gene into plants - and produce a blue rose.<<
They think that they could get the rose up and going within a year or two :-)
kathy :-)
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